Friday, December 2, 2016

Reading and Responding to Nonfiction Texts

Reading nonfiction text is so much fun.  We just love to learn about the world around us. This week we began working on reading and responding to nonfiction texts. The following are the Common Core State Standards for reading informational texts. 
5.RI.1Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
5.RI.2Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
5.RI.3Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
5.RI.4Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
5.RI.5Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
5.RI.6Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
5.RI.7Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
5.RI.8Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
5.RI.9Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
5.RI.10By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

We started with 1, 2 and 8 this week, quoting accurately, finding the main idea, and explaining reasons and evidence from text. Here is the flip chart and anchor charts we worked off of as we learned how to read and respond to the text.